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Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1953
Pages
Pages 250

On his fourteenth birthday, a Harlem preacher's stepson passes a night of visions on the church threshing floor, while the prayers of his elders replay the sins and griefs that made the family.

Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin

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